Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...missiles' most likely origin: Peenemünde, former V-bomb base on Germany's Soviet-occupied Baltic coast. Swedish Army spokesmen knew little beyond the fact that they were fired with a new type of weapon. But a picture released by the Army last week finally convinced all the papers (except the Communist) that the rockets were real, and that a foreign power (i.e., Russia) was using Sweden as a testing ground. Blustered Stockholm's Social Democratic Morgantidningen: "Intrusiveness must not be allowed to continue...
...dawn a soberminded flock of Christians, Buddhists and Shintoists gathered among the ruins at Hiroshima's Jisenji Temple for silent prayer and meditation. But thousands of their fellow citizens carried on as if the first anniversary of the atomic bomb were Rodeo Day in the Texas Panhandle. They jammed movie houses to see special anniversary shows, stampeded in the city's makeshift department stores to take advantage of bargain sales in Hiroshima-made products. The day ended with a bangup ritual lantern dance on the grounds of a Shinto shrine...
President Conant, who shares billing with such notables as Albert Einstein and Major General Leslie R. Groves to reenact the evolution of the A-bomb, is co-starred with Vannevar Bush in a scene filmed in a Cambridge garage and portraying the first explosion of the bomb...
...correspondents realized it, but the U.S. press as well as the Bomb had been on trial at Bikini. The Bomb did its part. How had the press acquitted itself? Last week precise, Annapolis-trained Hanson W. Baldwin, military analyst of the New York Times, put into the record a stern account of slipshod work, "irresponsible sensationalism" and some more than raffish behavior...
...almost invisible speck of radioactive carbon-a millicurie*- became the first byproduct of atom-bomb-making to be released for medical research. Last week's buyer (at $367 plus handling charges and deposit on the bottle): the Barnard Skin and Cancer Hospital of St. Louis, which will use it only in research. It will not cure cancer...